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Allow driver with 7.5 tonne entitlement to upgrade to drive HGV 2

Submitted on Wednesday 15th September 2021

Rejected on Tuesday 21st September 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow driver with 7.5 tonne entitlement to upgrade to drive HGV 2

Petition Details

to change the rule allow drivers with 7.5 tonnes either through grand dad rights or who have passed their 7.5 tonne course to upgrade their licence to help ease the HGV shortages

Additional Information

to ease the shortages in the transport sector and open up more job opportunites for older worker who already have the 7.5 tonne entitlement


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Give Class 2 drivers a Class 1 licence without needing to take the test: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/596865

Give everyone with a car driving licence entitlements to drive C1 and D1 vehicle: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/596949

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